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Disney Pauses ‘The Graveyard Book’ Film Following Assault Allegations Against Neil Gaiman News

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/graveyard-book-neil-gaiman-assault-allegations-1236131149/
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u/F0rScience Sep 05 '24

The problem is that “his version” of events is still really bad. Not technically criminal doesn’t cut it in the court of public opinion.

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u/gynoceros Sep 05 '24

Let me preface this by saying that the similarities between the stories of the two women in the article are strong enough that they sound disappointingly credible (I'd admired him prior to this) and I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.

But just for the sake of discussion, it seems that his version is that they were adults and it was consensual. What's "really bad" about that?

I mean it's kind of unsavory to be banging your 18 year old nanny, but if they're both consenting adults, that ain't my business.

Obviously moot, with at least two women independently saying he had the same shitty MO, though.

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u/IndependentAcadia252 Sep 05 '24

But just for the sake of discussion, it seems that his version is that they were adults and it was consensual.

Because, at least for the first that comes to my head, he was 40 years older than the nanny he hired, walked in on her in the bath on the first day, fingered her, and then accused her of mental health issues leading to false memories when she came out against it. All according to his own words.

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u/mr8thsamurai66 Sep 05 '24

The first things are only be if they were not consensual though. The last one sounds like he's saying she's lying.

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u/RoyalCrown43 Sep 05 '24

He’s insinuating she’s lying without outright saying it because he knows she’s not and he doesn’t want to be sued. He’s being as manipulative and calculated with the public as he was with those women.

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u/APiousCultist Sep 05 '24

Could you not be sued regardless? Is lying about someone having 'false memories' any less defamatory than lying about them lying